Source: https://guthlabs.ai/docs/jobs/tim-native-capability-qualification/field-guides/

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# Native capability qualification — field guides

The distinct field guides record for Native capability qualification. This page is proposal-only.

Status: **proposed**Lifecycle: **candidate**

## Record status

**Record ID**: job:tim:native-capability-qualification

**Parent lifecycle**: candidate

**Page lane**: docs_urls

**Lane lifecycle**: proposed

**Owner**: Tim

**Owner role**: Apple platform specialist

**Owner status**: PACKAGING

**Qualification result**: NOT RUN · held for evidence and human review

**Working browser surface:** [Agent jobs — builder overview](<https://guthlabs.ai/guth.html#builder>) — Inspect the package and stage a local project. This route is local-only; provider, credential, database, customer, publication, deployment, and production effects remain held.

## Related field-guide records

- /app/notebook/field-guides/

Source-proposed guide paths are references, not proof that those paths resolve.

## Operating sequence

- Open the source-bound job and confirm Tim is the owning Apple platform specialist.

- Record the capability question, intended user outcome, target Apple platforms, target OS assumptions, and requested decision date.

- Collect only supplied or explicitly approved source references; preserve locator, SHA-256, provenance, and revision metadata.

- Create a platform matrix for iPhone, iPad, and Mac, separating observed facts, proposed behavior, unknowns, and held states.

- Map each proposed behavior to the named Apple frameworks or tools in the source record, without asserting API availability or production integration.

- Identify entitlement, credential, store-submission, privacy, or scope implications and mark them as approval-gated.

- Draft a field-guide procedure with prerequisites, evidence requirements, failure states, accessibility checks, and deterministic acceptance tests.

- Create or update the qualification record and agent log with receipts, revisions, unresolved questions, and authority boundaries.

- Route gated decisions to Notebook Approvals; do not grant entitlements, use production credentials, submit, publish, or expand scope.

- Hand off the proposal to the relevant product, engineering, or approval owner and retain the qualification record as proposal-only until explicitly reclassified.

## Handoff boundary

- Treating a named native surface, framework, or tool as proof of a connected web feature or production capability.

- Claiming an unavailable API, OS capability, entitlement, provider connection, or customer indexing behavior.

- Using production credentials, submitting to a store, publishing, or changing scope without approval.

- Confusing local prototype or index routes with deployed Apple-platform behavior.

- Failing to distinguish iPhone, iPad, and Mac availability, interaction, accessibility, or lifecycle differences.

- Relying on stale or untraceable source material without preserving provenance and revision metadata.

- Allowing PointGuard context to become the canonical execution or record owner.

- Racing another writer or overwriting a newer qualification revision.

- Publishing distinct documentation routes that contain no distinct useful content.

- Ignoring accessibility, privacy, data minimization, or failure-state review when proposing capability behavior.

## Sources and evidence

These pointers bind the page to evidence. They do not grant authority or collapse verification into deployment.

- `agents/index.html#tim`

- `source_record:job:tim:native-capability-qualification`

- `Observed native contract: project_and_field_guide_collections`

- `Observed native contract: deadlines`

- `Observed native contract: records`

- `Observed native contract: pointguard`

- `App route metadata for /app/pointguard/`

- `App route metadata for /app/notebook/projects/`

- `App route metadata for /app/notebook/field-guides/`

- `App route metadata for /app/notebook/agent-logs/`

- `App route metadata for /app/notebook/approvals/`

- `App route metadata for /app/notebook/files/`

- `App route metadata for /app/notebook/notes/`

- `Observed native contract: records preserve canonical IDs, source locators, source SHA-256, provenance, revisions, lifecycle, tags, links, and attachments.`

- `Observed native contract: PointGuard is a persistent cross-app context surface while specialist apps remain execution and canonical-record owners.`

- `Observed native contract: current GuthHub routes are local prototypes or indexes and provider, credential, database, customer, publication, and production effects remain held.`

- `Observed app route: /app/notebook/field-guides/`

- `Observed app route: /app/notebook/approvals/`

- `Observed app route: /app/notebook/agent-logs/`

- `Observed app route: /app/notebook/projects/`

- `Observed app route: /app/notebook/search/`

- `Observed app route: /app/pointguard/`